Scarlett Johansson Quotes
When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
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I love working with people and having them bring something to the table that I couldn't. I think one of my favourite artists to work with has been Kucka. She's Australian, too, and it's great working with her because we kind of have a very similar take on music, and we like a lot of the same stuff. We're not super-precious about ideas.
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On one hand, it seems strange that a country that has suffered so much from violence and war would be debating if they want peace or not. But in Colombia, a part of society is deeply connected with the war as a means of making a living.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.
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To have a sense of style, it shows you know yourself. People like that.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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One of the greatest gifts that 'Homeland' has given me is it's affirming on a daily basis.
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Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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I think that there's the self-imposed pressure to come up with something that's good. For guys like us, that's much more important than any external pressure could really be.
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I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!
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I think being sublimely happy is the only thing I could ever hope for in life.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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A hero looks death in the face, real death, not just the image of death. Behaving honourably in a crisis doesn't mean being able to act the part of a hero well, as in the theatre, it means being able to look death itself in the eye. For an actor may play lots of different roles, but at the end of it all he himself, the human being, is the one who has to die.
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My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.
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The worst men often give the best advice.
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Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
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When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.
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Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.
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What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.
